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This week, one lucky Chicago Parent reader will win a family four pack of tickets to see American Ballet Theatre's performance of "Sleeping Beauty" at the Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker, Chicago, Friday, April 11 at 8 p.m. For more information on "Sleeping Beauty," visit the Web site, www.abt.org/performances/chicago.asp. To win, tell us what household chore you would complete if you could do so with the flick of a magic wand. Post your answer here, then e-mail your answer, name and your Chicago Parent ID to e-dition at chicagoparent dot com. You must post and e-mail us for your answer to be counted. We will not release your information-it is purely for contact purposes. Some answers may appear in Chicago Parent magazine. Winners will be chosen at random and may have no affiliation with Wednesday Journal Inc. or its employees.

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Kate Pancero
Assistant Editor/Weekend E-dition Editor
FabMama columnist
Chicago Parent

This is an easy one.  Washing the clothes with a magic wand would be my chore.  We have 5 in the family.  That is 5 pairs of underwear, tshirts, socks, pants and shirts a day.  Thats right, 30 pieces of clothing a day if you are lucky enough for everyone to wear the same thing all day without a spill, tear, etc...  The worst is when you wash everything and then are too tired to put it away and for all those husbands and wives who wash so that the other person can fold, hang and put away,  thanks but no thanks.

Oh~ My gosh if I had a magic wand I would give it a good flick and I make it wash, fold and put away all my laundry. Because with out a magic wand I find myself doing loads of laundry every week and it takes up so much time.

My husband doesn't like to help out at all with the laundry. So even if I only had the magic wand for a day it would definitely get a good work out.

Thanks, Monica 

 

 

Dusting! We have a few asthmatics here and our house is on a very busy road, so I have to remove dust daily...and I hate it. So, if dust could magically disappear, I'd be a happy girl.

For me it would be doing the dishes.  I don't have a dishwasher, so standing by the sink washing dishes is a time waster for me, and my kids don't like when I'm doing the dishes either.

If I were to choose a chore that a flick of the majic wand were to complete it would definately be putting everything back in it's place at the end of the day.  The house never seems to be clean after it's cleaned because we constantly use it.  My battle is clutter so if there's a place for everything and everything gets back in it's place it would be easier for me.  I have two little ones and the husband that works too much overtime so no one has time to put things back except for me.  By the time I'm done putting everything where it belongs I'm already starting to feel too tired to actually clean.

A magic wand... what a wonderful fantasy, what an amazing tool would it be for a humble housemaker such as me!  Doing the laundry is a major chore, but the worse is yet to come... I am my mother's daughter and I HAVE to IRON EVERYTHING!!!!  Therefore, if I had a magic wand I would in one strike of the magic wand have all my princesses' undies, shirts, skirts, and such ironed and put neatly away in their drawers.  What a fabulous dream!!!

If I could flick a wand and have a chore done it would be laundry.  Especially matchng the socks after you have washed and dried the clothes.

The chore I would do with the flick of a magic wand would be laundry.  In my house it is never ending.... I would love for it be washed then folded or hung up nicely.

The one household chore I would love to just do with just a flick of magic is making dinner. I get home pretty late from work and everyone waits for me to start dinner right away. Nobody knows what they want and of course when they decide everyone what's something different. When I get home, I want to at least sit down and relax for 5 minutes but its never possible with and 3, 4 and 27 year old (the so called man of the house) asking me whats for dinner. I so wish I had a fairy god mother at those moments!

With the flick of a magic wand.... Clean the whole house.. dusting, arranging everything in order (",)

It would definitely be the laundry!  Washing for six is hard.  The laundry room looks like a tornado past by.  By the time I start doing laundry again the laundry room is finally empty from the last time I did laundry.  It's a never ending story.  It never gets done.  I'm doing laundry every other day.  I need this so called magical wand.  Where can I get one???? 

My 6 yr old son is quite the "theater" lover.  He has a library of films already and is not in tune yet with putting each movie back into cases.  This was an easy one for me because sometimes it takes us an hour a day organizing all his movies.  He normally skips out on me within the hour, but if I could I'd waive my magic wand for this tedious project to be over.

This is an easy one, if I had a majic wand I would do my laudry in a snap.  I have a family of 4 (5 year old & 5 month old) and we have a dog so our clothes and blankets are always full of dog hair.  It seems that everytime I think I am almost done with laundry another pile is there waiting for me to do it.

 

Jennie